Facebook: how the news app will work

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The company that keeps insisting it's not in the media business intends to launch a news tab in the coming months, and appears keen on staving off another Trending topics-style fiasco. Part of this effort, it would seem, involves establishing editorial guidelines — enforced by actual humans — for the articles populating its upcoming section. The Information got its hands on some of the editorial criteria presented to Facebook's recently hired "news curators" (i.e. editors), and the collection of standards is enough to make the average person wonder why the company didn't try this before. Facebook is explicitly telling its news curators not to censor stories critical of their employer. It's not clear if any such direction was given to the independent contractors working on its Trending topics team.

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